Matehuala

Information and facts about the municipality of Matehuala

Location of Matehuala

The municipality of Matehuala is located in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí México

Population of Matehuala

The overall population of the municipality named Matehuala is 82726 citizens, 39868 males and 42858 females.

Age distribution

The population of Matehuala is divided into 32886 minors and 49840 adults, with 7504 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Matehuala

373 people in Matehuala live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 167 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 0 and 157 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 48502 citizens of Matehuala.

Economic situation

In Matehuala about 19437 households are registered.

18995 of these households are common houses or apartments, 806 are without floor and about 390 consist of one room only.

18350 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 16462 are connected to the public water supply, 18165 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 3328 households to own a computer, 15253 own a washing machine and 17866 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Matehuala

Besides the 3927 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 509 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

3908 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 21204 persons did not finish the school. 12816 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 16510 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 5477 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 8 years.